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Steele Wars : Star Wars Podcast

Ep 240 : Yakface - Collector Of Collecting News

Steele Wars : Star Wars Podcast

Steele Saunders

Tv & Film, Comedy, Performing Arts, Arts

4.5524 Ratings

🗓️ 4 August 2020

⏱️ 117 minutes

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Summary

YakFace.com is one of the premiere destinations for Hasbro toy news. On this episode we go behind the scenes with Yakface himself Jayson and talk about action figure collecting throughout the years, his Yoda love and shares his memories about seeing Empire Strikes Back in the cinema. 

Plus we talk all things modern Hasbro, what the next HasLab project should be and ponder if they’ll will always be with Star Wars.


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0:00.0

Jackface.com is one of the premier destinations for Hasbro's Star Wars Toy News. On this episode,

0:10.2

we go behind the scenes with Yakface himself Jason and talk action figure collecting throughout the

0:16.4

years. His yoda love and shares his memories about seeing Empire Strikes Back in the cinema for the first time.

0:24.6

Plus, we talk all things modern Hasbro, what the next Haslab project should be,

0:30.0

and ponder if they'll always be the producer of Star Wars action figures.

0:35.3

I think over the years of Hasbro having a license,

0:39.3

there's been opportunities for it to go elsewhere.

0:42.2

And Disney, well, at least most recently,

0:44.5

I think Disney's decided to stick with them as their go-to manufacturer.

0:51.4

Do you have an opinion on that?

0:53.1

I'm of two minds, I guess.

0:54.5

I think, let's say another company, we're to take over.

0:58.7

It's not like they're going to start automatically issuing product we've never gotten before.

1:05.8

They're going to hitch their wagon to already established characters, and that would mean we would be buying

1:13.2

another Darth Vader, another Luke, another R2, another original trilogy character, probably.

1:20.1

We're not going to get some long-lost action figure or vehicle that we had never received before.

1:25.8

They're going to start off on the safe foot.

1:27.8

It's going to be toy biz bringing out the Tonka sisters after all this time.

1:32.2

This is Steel Wars episode 240 Yakface,

1:37.3

Collector of Collecting News.

1:49.6

Hey, you guys, welcome to Steel Wars.

1:53.8

I am Steel Saunders and I do love Star Wars.

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